The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1887-11-12


which occupied thirty live minutes in the
reading, and which closed as follows: I'VE
are Of the opinion that no Federal question
has been presented warranting the inter
ference of this court and therefore we DENY
the writ. " An appeal to Governor Oglesby
is the only recource now left to the CON
demned meu.
The business portion of the town of
Trenton, Ark, was destroyed by fire on
the ID
The union job printers of St Louis inau-
gurated a strike on the I'd for an advance of
one dollar a week.
AT Hebron, Conn, on the I'd John Hodel,
while drunk shot his wife and then set fire
to their house. two children perishing in
the flames. Hodel attempted to escape, but
was captured. -'-.
JOSEPH SMITH, a Cincinnati capitalist,
made an assignment on the I'd, owing
$25O,OOO.
AT railway crossing at steubenville, o.,
on the I'd Miss Hattie Turner was fatally in
jured, and her escort, John G. Beatty, in
stantly killed
GEORGE ARTHUR, United States Naval
Surgeon, fell from train near Salem, Va,
and was killed on the I'd. He was on his
way to Shelbyville, Tenn, to be married
Mrs. ANNA SACHS, who was fined fifty dol
lars at st. Louis recently for tossing a pan
cake into Mrs Cleyeland's lap, was, on APP
peal, released on the I'd on the payment of
fifteen dollars
The Commissioner of Indian Affairs in his
annual report on the I'd notes substantial
evidence OF continued progress on the part
OF the Indians towards civilizitio
On the Laccasagne plantation at Tiger
vile, La, four laborers were shot from
hn
struck recently, but the white hands re-
manned The Governor had been tel
egraphed TO send troops.
IHE coal miners in the neighborhood of
Evansville, Ind, returned to work on the
"a at the old rates They had been out
since the middle of September
The house of A. D. Garrett a farmer. at
Spencer, O., was destroyed by fire on the
I'd, and his two imbecile daughters persisted
in the flames TWAS thought that Garrett's
second wife, step-mother of the girls fred
the building:
BY an oversight of the State authorities
OF Georgia, Charlotte Jones, a convict, was
not released at the expiration of her SEN
tence, and she had on the I'd been illegally
deprived OF her liberty for fourteen months
The National Cattle Growers convention
at Kansas City adjourned on the I'd W. A.
ton for the ensui ing year.
ADv1CEs of the I'd from Norfolk. Va. say
that in the recent storms along the coast
over fifty vessels were wrecked, but no loss
OF life was reported.
The bodies of twenty-five persons who
went down in the recent wreck of the
steamer Vernon on Lake Michigan were
found on the 3D. and were at Two Rivers
Wis, awaiting identification.
For the third time within two months the
village of Rawson, O.. was on the I'd swept
by flames and a number of dwelling houses
and small buildings destroyed
!. EXTENSIVE forest fires were raging on the
"a in the vicinity of Bennettsville, Ind,
and great damage had been done.
A SYNDICATE Of New York and PHILADELPHIA
capitalists on the Sd purchased controlling
interest in the New York Graphic The
paper will remain an independent Demo
cratic journal.
IT was reported on the Sd that the strike
on the Louisiana plantations was confined
to the negroes, ten thousand of whom had
quit work Il
FOURTEEN persons at Pittsburgh, Pa, were
made seriously sick on the Sd by drinking
poisoned milk, but it was thought that they
would all recover:
HE entire business portion of the village
of Castalia, o., was destroyed by fire on
the Sd.
NEAR Grand Junction, Col, early on the
! morning of the Sd number OF masked
men stopped a Denver & Rio Grande ex-
press train, compelling the employees to
leave their positions, and then robbed the
passengers and cut the mail pouches and
carried off the contents of the registered
packages
AT Chester, N. Y, the house of William
Wade, a railroad man, was burned on the
night of the Sd, Wade's wife perishing in
| the flames.
FRED HANSEN, proprietor of the Galloway
House at Eau Claire, Wis, and former
clerk named Edward Richardson had fight
with pistols on the 3d. and both men were
fatally wounded.
The stock of the Western Union Tele-
graph Company was increased So, 600, 600
on the Sd, making the total 1886, 200. 900.
On the Buffalo IN. " track on the Sd G.
j. Hamlin's Justina and Belle Hamlin low
| cred the worlds record for teams from 2:23
to 2:1S.
HE advisory committee of Plymouth
Church, Brooklyn, decided on the 81 to ex-
tend call to Rev. Charles A. Berry, Of
Wolverhampton. Eng, to become it's pas
tor. Mr. Barry is thirty-fve years Of age,
and was a personal friend of the late Henry
Ward Beecher.
ADv1CEs of the Sd from Portia Ark, say
that the woods for ten miles around had
been on fire for four days, and that cot on
| fields had been burned and corn-cribs,
barns, dwelling houses and fields ruined.
! JOHN RoBINsoNs circus train was wrecked
at the Union depot in St Louis on the Sd
and many animals were liberated, causing O
panic, Lut the beasts were secured before
any harm was done ----------.,---
The annual report of the Commissioner Of
Customs, submitted to the Secretary of the
Treasury on the Sd, shows that during the
last fiscal year accounts were examined in
his Office involving $21S,6l0,301 in re-
ceipts and 1913, 796, 1852 in disbursements.
| In the district OF West Virginia, opposite
Wellsville, o., hogs were dying on the Sd
from cholera at a rapid rate, and all efforts
to check the plague had proved futile
IT was announced on the Sd that Spies.
Flelden and Schwab, three of the con-
demned Chicago Anarchists, had signed
petition to Governor Oglesby for commu-
| tation Of sentence
CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE received at his home
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